Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-05-17


- orArEsMAS:-Probably you
noticed a piece some weeks aro in
the Idaho World in reference to !
bridge across the Payette at or near
marsh q lreton's place, saying that
1ne commissioners had been ne.
tltloned to build said bridge, but it
would only be the means of people
gong into Ada county to trade.
NOW l can't but call your attention
70 such an unreasonable idea. If we
had to swim the Payette we would.
go where we could get goods rs Der
cent. cheaper and far better road
than to pay 81 toll to go where an
empty wagon is big load, and a
lew little China shops that can't be
reached but six months in twelve,
merely to keep the money in our
own county. 1t would be lust as
reasonable for the people of Ada to
say the merchants should not 90 to
San Francisco or New York to buy
goods, because the money should be
kept in Ada county. This section
OF Boise county is paying more taxes
and is improving the fastest Of anv
portion Of the county, and yet we
never have received the least accom-
modatlon nor any benefit from the
hundreds of dollars we have paid in
to the county treasury. Upper
Squaw Creek, High Valley, Long
Valley and this valley, all will cross
the river where we ask for this bridge,
and yet we can't get one dollars ap
preparation from our beloved county.
If this is the objection, l move that
we be struck off into the county that
it is our interest to trade in. E. S.
SWEET, May s, 1887.
The Statesman's correspondent
doesn't seem to remember exactly
what the World said in discussing
the question of building this bridge.
We said 1t would be for the purpose
of atfording shorter route for the
Squaw creekers to and from Ada
county or more particularly Boise
City, and if it affected trade at all, it
would be for the benefit of Ada coun-
ty, and to the detriment of Boise. We
made no such unreasonable assertions
as that the people of Squaw Creek
should not trade where they can buy
cheapest. 1t is natural for people to
trade where they can do the best
whether in their own county or some
other county. We stated, also, that
they already. had means of reaching
Boise City, by route eighteen or
twenty miles further than by March
& Ireton's ranch: that is by way of
Horseshoe Bend, where there is a
county bridge. E. S. is not using the
right kind of language to induce the
people of this side of the county to
sign the petition for that bridge. His
reference to the business houses of
the Basin as few little China shops,
as the language he uses would lead
one to infer that he means that the
main portion of the business of the
Basin is done by Chinese, is not very
complimentary, and far from facts;
but we do not believe the people
enerally of Squaw creek and vicini-
ty endorse such sallies of sarcasm as
are indulged in by E. S., for if it was
known that they did, it would have a
somewhat blighting effect. How
could E. S. find fault with the ma
jorlty of the Board of County Com
missioners (the majority who repre-
sent the section composed of on ly a
few little China shops in the way of
business houses) for not granting an
appropriation for this bridge? He
ought to know better than to expect
help from the China shop section,
and not to get worked up over fail
ure of the China shop part of the
county to stand in; but this CORES
pondent does not mean what he says,
and we'll not waste any more words
on his attempted bit of sarcasm
E. S. ought to know the reason the
Commissioners took no action in the
matter of making an appropriation
for this bridge. 1t was because the
petition did not have the requisite
number of signatures. The WORLD
so stated. The war on the Commis-
sioners is little premature. This
correspondent states that the trade
of that section already goes to Boise
CITY, so the building of this bridge
cannot injure any section of Boise
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